Robin Holcomb - The Point Of It All (2015) [Hi-Res]

"... improvisations and investigations into the heart and soul of experimental jazz ... the composer-singer-pianist takes journeys to carnival-like atmospheres and the natural world with equal aplomb."
- PopMatters.com

"... represents a fuller consolidation, coming closest to representing her varied musical interests. Lyrically, as ever, Holcomb's messages, while strong, are delivered gently, without a big stick. Expansive and deeply resonant, but in the quietest fashion possible ... perfectly melds Holcomb's divergent interests, with a group of musicians who seem perfectly connected to her evocative world on an empathic, telepathic level."
- All About Jazz

Husband and wife pianists Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horvitz team up with Vancouver quartet Talking Pictures on this album that defies easy categorization. As the title suggests, there’s a lesson of sorts being expounded. There’s certainly something archaic about it, almost as if these songs had already existed as prototypes in another time and place, a lost America of long ago. Yet this music is very much about now, a symbolic distillation of the present.

01. Robin Holcomb - Interlude (6:01)
02. Robin Holcomb - The Sweetest Thing (3:02)
03. Robin Holcomb - Buttermilk Hill Suite (6:35)
04. Robin Holcomb - Sad Waltz (6:00)
05. Robin Holcomb - The Point of It All (3:34)
06. Robin Holcomb - Couch Alternate (alternate) (3:45)
07. Robin Holcomb - Tiny Swing (3:10)
08. Robin Holcomb - Against the Drift (3:12)
09. Robin Holcomb - 10.15.07 (7:56)
10. Robin Holcomb - After the Gold Rush (4:15)
11. Robin Holcomb - The Scavenger Song (4:06)
12. Robin Holcomb - Electrical Storm (4:35)
13. Robin Holcomb - The Rain (10:14)